# What movies/shows/books would be over a lot sooner today? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 12, 2010, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-shows-books-would-be-over-a-lot-sooner-today/546408 "2010-07-12T16:15:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2010, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-shows-books-would-be-over-a-lot-sooner-today/546408/21 "2010-07-14T15:11:37Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Jack: “Oooh, let’s try this position!” > Janet: “Yeah, I’ve never had it this way before!” > Chrissy: “I was going to remain silent, listening to this behind a closed door and deriving all sorts of salacious interpretations, but I decided to speak up for once and ask: ‘What _are_ you two doing in there?’” > Jack: “Moving furniture. What did you think we were doing?” > > ROLL CREDITS Not to take away from the brilliance of the above dialog in capturing every Three’s Company episode ever, but in fairness to the integrity of the respective characters, I think you should switch Janet and Chrissy’s lines. Chrissy, much more the innocent, would be both more likely to utter that line without realizing its _entendre_ possibilities and much less likely to impute salaciousness to them if overheard. Janet, more wordly, would be the better choice to hear the phrase and conjure up something inappropriate. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2010, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-shows-books-would-be-over-a-lot-sooner-today/546408/22 "2010-07-14T15:12:52Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > Not to take away from the brilliance of the above dialog in capturing every Three’s Company episode ever, but in fairness to the integrity of the respective characters, I think you should switch Janet and Chrissy’s lines. Chrissy, much more the innocent, would be both more likely to utter that line without realizing its _entendre_ possibilities and much less likely to impute salaciousness to them if overheard. Janet, more wordly, would be the better choice to hear the phrase and conjour up something inappropriate. This is true, but Janet was hotter once she lost the fro, and Jack was half in love with her anyway. I agree, however, that Chrissy did not know the word _salacious_. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2010, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-shows-books-would-be-over-a-lot-sooner-today/546408/23 "2010-07-14T16:37:05Z")
> [@Superhal](#): > > Oh, I thought of a couple just involving competent policemen: > \ > 2. Speaking of research, if microfiche is so hard to use, why not just a simple google search? Not everything is available through Google. (No, really!) I don’t know what specific movies/shows/books you might be thinking of, but it seems realistic to me as a librarian that police would sometimes have to use microform records. Old local newspapers are often ONLY available in microform, although more and more things are moving online. Even things that are available in an electronic format will not necessarily be out there for free on the Web or visible to Google, though. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2010, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-shows-books-would-be-over-a-lot-sooner-today/546408/24 "2010-07-14T20:44:46Z")
> [@](#): > > Even things that are available in an electronic format will not necessarily be out there for free on the Web or visible to Google, though. True, but I would hope that police departments have subscriptions to things like Lexis-Nexis. Not all data is available to everyone, but most folks do have access to the data they actually have use for. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2010, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-shows-books-would-be-over-a-lot-sooner-today/546408/25 "2010-07-14T23:52:46Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > True, but I would hope that police departments have subscriptions to things like Lexis-Nexis. That’s not “a simple Google search”, which is the specific suggestion I was responding to. > [@](#): > > \*Not all data is available to everyone, but most folks do have access to the data they actually have use for. \*They don’t have access to it in whatever format they want, though. Something like the _New York Times_ is available electronically going back to the mid 19th century, but for my town’s daily paper if you need anything from before 1993 then it’s microfilm or nothing. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-shows-books-would-be-over-a-lot-sooner-today/546408/26 "2010-07-15T00:43:01Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > This is true, but Janet was hotter once she lost the fro, and Jack was half in love with her anyway. > > I agree, however, that Chrissy did not know the word _salacious_. Y’all are right. I put the right words in the wrong characters mouths. Forgive me. ☹ 😉 ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-shows-books-would-be-over-a-lot-sooner-today/546408/27 "2010-07-15T00:53:45Z")
> [@Lamia](#): > > That’s not “a simple Google search”, which is the specific suggestion I was responding to. > \*They don’t have access to it in whatever format they want, though. Something like the _New York Times_ is available electronically going back to the mid 19th century, but for my town’s daily paper if you need anything from before 1993 then it’s microfilm or nothing. Yes and no - frequently people have webpages dedicated to something that happened in their life, with scans of specific articles from newspapers that you can find thanks to keywords in their text. So theoretically you aren’t finding the newspaper per se, but a description of the article with a scan of the article. Or you get people like the ones that made [Wisconsin Death Trip](http://www.wisconsindeathtrip.com/) and you can have an entire documentary with pictures and readings =) ---
**Author:** ![tanstaafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-shows-books-would-be-over-a-lot-sooner-today/546408/28 "2010-07-15T00:55:16Z")
[Obligatory xkcd link](http://www.xkcd.com/734/). ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-shows-books-would-be-over-a-lot-sooner-today/546408/29 "2010-07-15T02:44:10Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > Yes and no - frequently people have webpages dedicated to something that happened in their life, with scans of specific articles from newspapers that you can find thanks to keywords in their text. So theoretically you aren’t finding the newspaper per se, but a description of the article with a scan of the article. What you describe isn’t frequent at all. It’s not _impossible_ that someone could find just the old newspaper article they need reproduced on someone else’s personal website, but the odds are very much against it. In a work of fiction this would strike me as a hell of a lot more contrived than just having the detective go to the library and use the microfilm reader. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-shows-books-would-be-over-a-lot-sooner-today/546408/30 "2010-07-15T02:50:10Z")
**6 Degrees of Separation** Will Smith: I’m Sidney Poitier’s son… [ten seconds later] Donald Sutherland/Stockard Channing: Googling says Sidney Poitier only has daughters… call the cops. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-shows-books-would-be-over-a-lot-sooner-today/546408/31 "2010-07-15T03:30:29Z")
Any plot that involves the characters getting from one country to another by long sea voyages. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-shows-books-would-be-over-a-lot-sooner-today/546408/32 "2010-07-15T04:38:05Z")
> [@tanstaafl](#): > > [Obligatory xkcd link](http://www.xkcd.com/734/). I loved that “the remaining 90 minutes of the movie will be a romantic comedy.” Is there an xkcd for everything? I just know someday I’ll be reading the thread “My husband and my lesbian partner just stole a Hummer to drive on a treadmill to Roger Ebert’s Quackless Duck Blind at SXSW.” And the next post’ll be [obligatory xkcd link.](http://xkcd.com/52/) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-shows-books-would-be-over-a-lot-sooner-today/546408.md?page=1)